Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-23
AFTER CARLISLE'S SCALP.
THE SCHEME OF RANDALL'S
FRIENDS.
THE KENTUCKY CONGREssMAN's
SEAT TO DE GIVEN TO THE CON.
TESTING LABOR CANDIDATE.
Bureau of The Baltimore American

Bureau OF The Baltimore American.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Is, 81.
The most interesting phase yet
given TO the fight between the pro.
tecliOn and the free trade Demo.
Gratis is found in the remarkable
statement just made by IA Pennsyl.
vanIa politician now in this city
This gentleman is responsible tor
the most positive assertion that it
is the deliberate purpose of Sam
Randall and his followers to use
every means at hand to keep Car.
Isle out Of Congress this winter,
and seat Thoebe, the Labor con.
testant. This, il true, is in the
nature of revelation. and aside
from the additional interest that 1t
imparts to this interesting family
quarrel, places Mr.. Randall in
altogether a new light before the
public.
1t is asserted that Morrison's de.
feat in Illinois, and the presence OF
Thoebe IN Carlisle's district, when
he thought that he had no opposi,
ton, are directly traceable to Ran.
dalPs influence. The whole man.
agement of the notable contest be
tween Carlisle and Thoebe, says
the man from Pennsylvania, show,
ed unmistakably the hand of some
adrolt politician, and that hand
was none other than that Of Sam
Randall. These men had fully
made up their minds to keep Morri
son and Carlisle from going to the
Fiftieth Congress, because they
knew that the free. traders would
make herculean efforts this winter
to carry out their views on tariff
reform, and they know if they can
give the move "a black eye this
time, tariff reform will slumber
for some time TO come. "The
Carlisle. Morrison wing of the
party" he said, shave made nc
secret of the fact that Randall ID
an incubus to the party, that if he
we're out of the House 1t would be
a good deal better for the Democ
racy, and they have made all
manner of threats, such as reading
him out of the party, defeating
him in his own district, and devised
other schemes to shear him of his
influence. At the last Congress.
slonal election the ree-trade Demo
Gratis said that Mr.. Randall ought
to be defeated. No man knows
better than Mr.. Randall the tactics
of his enemies, and when he heard
this he remarked and | know where
OF / speak, that no Democrat oil
combination of Democrats could
defeat him. While his enemies
were looking after his interests
Randall was not unmindful o.
theirs.
"The Democrats will have a very
slender majority in the next House
not more than thirteen. There
are four Labor men whom the
Democrats count upon as voting
with them, but as between Carlisle
and Thoebe, they will naturally
vote for their fellow labor man
ThOebe. With Carlisle out Of the
House Randall's position will be
much more powerful, and then,
with all the great free.traders gone
Carlisle defeated, Morrison an
interstate commerce commissioner
and Hewitt mayor Of New York
who will lead the tariff reformers
The tariff question will have re
ceived its quietus for the time be
ing, although the Democrats will
still be in the majority and retain
control OF the House. This is the
great fight of the protectlonists OF
the country against the free.traders
and the former will do everything
in their power to win the hght.n